Firefox Keyword Search Broken on Google Maps

4:31 pm on July 16th, 2009 | Tech

For people like me who use the firefox keyword search feature, a google maps keyword search set to gp is on the top of the list. I can just say gp address in the browser windows to quickly lookup the directions whenever I’m in a hurry. I recently lost my old bookmark, so I had to go to the google maps site and bookmark it. But this time around it simply wouldn’t work. All I get after I press enter is a lousy blank page with a blank text box. So after a little research on the web I found that google changed some of the search strings. This is what the new string looks like.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%s&f=q&source=s_q&output=js&hl=en&geocode=&mrt=all

The part in red is the rogue string that breaks the google maps keyword search for firefox. So anyone who has been affected by this just edit your google maps keyword search bookmark to look like this:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%s&f=q&hl=en&geocode=&mrt=all

And search away.

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4 Responses to “Firefox Keyword Search Broken on Google Maps”

  1. hauser says:
    July 30, 2009 at 6:04 am

    Thanks!
    That did the trick.

    Reply
  2. Harsha says:
    September 28, 2009 at 1:33 pm

    Good :)
    Its like breaking a leg if you don’t have this working for me.

    Reply
  3. Aaron says:
    January 10, 2011 at 4:19 pm

    You rock! Thanks so much.

    Reply
  4. Be Faster with Firefox Keyword Searches « Walking the Pattern says:
    June 22, 2011 at 3:10 pm

    [...] Searches at first, giving you a blank page with nothing but a text field. Thanks to a tip from GreySquare Blog, you can just go into the properties of your Google Maps Keyword Search, and remove the string [...]

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